What about Fontpool.com?

Hi! I was looking for the name of one of my fonts at Google and found it at www.fontpool.com. This site has nothing to offer than links to MyFonts, which might be okay, but is it legal to copy all the font samples from MyFonts (or from anywhere else) and publish them on a site without a license? I would like to ask the webmaster but I couldn't find an imprint on this site, not even an eMail address.

One of the things that bothers me about this site (aside from the obvious lack of tact on MyFonts part for allowing a conflict of interest by having an internal employee have a click-link site earning commissions) is that FontPool is utilizing information not otherwise available to MyFont designers and foundries can be improper to disclose. I am speaking of the sales rank for a given family which is only found for the top 50 or so on the MyFonts website, but on the FontPool website is disclosed for all families. I find it a bit disturbing that MyFonts chooses to disclose this information to third parties without permission nor without offering it to the designers themselves.

Does Nick Shinn WANT people to know that Alphaville is the 4,475th most popular of 8,500 families that MyFonts sells? I would think not. Does Nick Curtis want people to know that Boogaloo (the face name that Berthold went after Bitstream for $$$$ on) is the 4,357th seller? I would think not. Does Bitstream want people to know that their version of Americana is the 1,602nd most popular, while the Linotype is 492nd, the Elsner + Flake is 2,782nd, the Scangraphic 1,664th, and the URW++ 4,198th? Again, I would think not. These examples can go on and on.

While I appreciate that the individual sales of any typeface are not astronomical, this type of information can be used to extrapolate what most would consider proprietary data. It's really irresponsible of MyFonts to allow this abuse of privacy.

I find it unfathomable that "MyFonts," or in this case, Bitstream, would not know about this site. Therefore, it must be legit. I MyFonts makes money from the referrals, then it is probably OK with them anyway. Just a guess